Let's Win 2014
Kos had a great piece today on Sarah Palin being the 2016 nominee. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We need to win in 2014. And we need to start planning now. There was a great article in...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Will Never Win
We all know that by sometime around 2030 the country will cease to be majority White. Which means the White Man's Party - the GOP - will be shit out of luck. But you know what? if you read the New...
View ArticleReponsible Conservatives - Just As FOS As The Loony Ones
The split in the Republican Party used to be between 'mainstream' Republicans (we used to call them 'Rockefeller Republicans') and 'conservative' Republicans like Goldwater and Buckley. Then along...
View ArticleEat The Rich - Chapter 1
I am going to start a new series of diaries devoted to the attempt by the two factions of the Republican Party to emerge from the current election debacle as the dominant force in the party. Until...
View ArticleEat The Rich - Chapter 2: Grover Norquist
We continue our little series on how the Republican Party is "coming to grips" with the results of November 6 by conducting a lovely internecine battle amongst themselves to emerge as the party...
View ArticleEat The Rich - Chapt. 3: Paul Ryan
Remember the Ryan Budget? The Magna Carta of the Tea Party that sailed through the House back in March, then got Ryan on the national ticket because Romney was so taken by his intellectualism and new...
View ArticleEat The Rich - Chapter 4: DeMint Disappears
The colossal collapse of the Conservative movement, never mind the whole Republican party, was exemplfied today by the decision by Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to give up perhaps the most secure seat in...
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Eat The Rich - Chapter 4: Karl Rove
Can you imagine an evening on Fox without Karl Rove? How did this happen? How could such a huge hot-air balloon deflate so quickly? Please read below the fold.
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Eat The Rich - Chapter 5: The Tea Party
Remember the Tea Party? They were going to transform the political landscape. And when the reds captured the House in 2010 everyone on the Right was writing the Bomber's political obituary and...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Undecided Voter
Here we go again. The latest missive about the "undecided" voter is a debate on the impact of Obama's early television ads that painted Romney as an elite, vulture capitalist with overseas bank...
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Rove Declares War on the Tea Party
So after the 2012 election demonstrated that Karl Rove's "America is Center-Right" mantra was simply wrong, the used-to-be Fox News contributor has now decided that at least the Republican Party will...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Can't Win
You don't need Nate Silver to figure this one out. If you are as old as I am (b. 1944) it's very simple and it goes like this. When I was a kid there were White, Blacks and a few Hispanics -...
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A Serious and Important Opinion on Gun Control
Dr. Clarence Jones is a remarkable man, now in his 80s, still active and alert. Fifty years ago, as Martin Luther King's personal attorney, he drafted the "I Have a Dream Speech." And over the years...
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Let's Find A New Way To Talk About Guns
Sometimes when I listen to arguments against gun control I think I'm getting beamed in from another planet. This week a lawsuit against the new CT gun law was filed on behalf of a man with...
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Is This Or Isn't This A 'Modern Sporting Rifle?'
When is an assault rifle not an assault rifle? When the gun industry and their PR folks decide that it's a Modern Sporting Rifle. And since many high-profile members of the gun control community...
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Do Background Checks Work?
The airwaves, the printwaves and most of all, the voicewaves have been filled to the brim with arguments about background checks. Even late-night television show hosts can be counted on to come up...
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My Huffington Blog On Gun Violence
I put a blog on Huffington that sums up some issues about the current gun debate. So here's the link and feel free to leave a comment, etc. A federal court in Texas today ruled against a lawsuit...
View ArticleMy New Blog
I started my own blog recently and invite all of you to join. Just click here and enjoy. I just put up a couple of interesting posts about Glenn Beck and the NRA.
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Mother's Day Message from Evolve
I belong to a very unique organization called Evolve. The organization was founded by two New York advertising executives - Rebecca and Jon Bond - who were horrified by the Sandy Hook tragedy and...
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